#but for now we're sober

[ghostsofharrenhal]

Okay hear me out: the One Piece doesn’t actually exist. Not as a gold-and-jewels treasure people think it is. Gol D. Roger’s dying words were, “if you want (my treasure), I’ll give it to you. I have left everything in this world there/I left everything I have gathered together in one place” (depending on the translation) In my mind, Luffy’s adventures show us the power of being a pirate, in defiance of the Marines and World Government and the myriad powers of Tyranny around their world. Through his actions, Luffy has found Nakama, family, and allies everywhere he goes. Pardon the cheese, but those people he has found are the treasure. Those bonds are more valuable than gold and jewels. Gold Roger reached this enlightenment before he was executed, and made his speech knowing no one would truly understand, but said it anyway, hoping his words would reach his true successor.

(This is a crackpot theory - I’ve only seen OPLA and a dozen episodes of the anime - but I stand by it bc I think it speaks to the overall theme of One Piece.)

first of all, thank you for taking the time to type this out!

second of all, this theory is actually one of the more popular ones! i wish you well in your anime journey because the lore is massive and soon all of the hints will come together and you have all the time to get to that!

personally i think this theory is part of the bigger "one piece." there's this joke even going around that the manga/anime will end without oda revealing what the treasure is and in a way we'll go back to square one - this time it's an irl treasure hunt haha! there's nothing more meta and hilarious than that.

but as for friendship being the one piece, farther into the manga/anime this will keep on solidifying for every crew member luffy recruits, every island they liberate, and every person they befriend. and i cannot wait for you to see the parallels between luffy and roger, on how they both embody being the pirate king - the freest person on the sea, the man who had held (roger) and holds (luffy) his found family as the most priceless treasure there is.

whether the one piece is a tangible object that will shock the world or an intangible ideal like friendship, liberation, freedom, the philosophy of the found family is its core. because the only way that you'll get to circle the world, overcome all obstacles, and get to the one piece is through and with your nakama.

[demento-mori]

Kozue is fr the most underrated rgu chracter imo. She's only in like, 4 episodes, but she steals the show every second she's onscreen.

She's 13. She's bisexual. She has gifted kid burnout. She rescues baby birds and tries to kill creepy teachers. She kissed a girl in a moving car. She previously tried to kill that same girl. She has parallels with like every other character in the show. No one else is doing it like her. Legendary. Iconic even. I like to think that, post-canon, she pulled the good old staircase trick one last time on Akio before leaving. Its what she deserves.

[vaguely-concerned]

I've been trying to figure out a dynamic between neve and rye that I find more compelling, because right now there's not much of anything there for me to sink my little teeth into. but I think I've landed on something delicious with the idea that especially after minrathous gets fucked, rye looks at neve and sees myrna -- someone he feels he keeps letting down horribly no matter how hard he tries not to and can't quite achieve the approval of/connection with that he wishes so it's better to just pull away completely and disengage rather than stay in that unshifting shame. neve is (very understandably) measured and distant with him after what happened, and he's flashing back to his student days of myrna gazing at the perpetually hungover heartbroken heap of a person of him on the other side of her desk every time he missed the deadline of a paper or project like '...can we at least both agree that this is. a bit disappointing. especially considering your potential.' (and him all smudged black eyeshadow and numb ruefulness being like 'sure that's a very kind way to put it myrna thank you'.)

aside from the 'if I let him get too deeply into this he'll go the way of brom and it'll be all my fault (again)' element, neve thinks rye is dismissing her and her city/being a bit callous in the same way he was after varric's death (listen. how fucking wild must rook's reaction to losing a beloved mentor seem to the rest of the crew who aren't seeing the blood magic paper doll ghost varric the whole time, especially those who got to see them interact. you WOULD think 'there's something wrong with this guy. putting the job first is one thing just not seeming to react at all is another this is fucking freaky', wouldn't you, especially after seeing the warmth in that dynamic in action beforehand.) perfect storm of two people who grit their teeth and turn inwards in pain deciding that not talking about it is their best bet (NEWSFLASH: IT ISN'T) lmao

(rye spent his last year of watcher training on a mostly joyless bender and then got it together enough to finish the eternal orb project last moment in a fevered near-sleepless week instead of the half a year that was intended. emmrich is both astounded and distressed to hear this. "a week? but -- but that is an astounding accomplishment rook!! and also why in the maker's good light would you ever do that to yourself?" ("well you see there was no one to stop me from doing it like that but me. and under those conditions these things tend to happen".) rye was working through/looking up stuff around transitioning and doing every kind of OTHER high level watcher research through that whole time, but ultimately he's an excellent watcher and a terrible student, at least under traditional methods. adhd from here to the fucking moon. touched by something akin to divine inspiration in moments of high tension that pulls all the threads into one coherent unbreakable cord, a bit of a frayed mess in most other settings. in our world he'd be dropping out of a masters program at the very last hurdle in this moment maker bless and protect him)

[auncyen]

Hikari being just drunk enough to not think too hard about confessing that he doesn't mind using incite to draw monsters to him because it keeps everyone else a little safer. But also even if he gets hurt he trusts Castti to take care of him and it's kind of nice to be cared for and Partitio, way too drunk to handle this kind of conversation delicately, just hauls Hikari into one-armed hug/stranglehold and is like "You don't gotta be hurt to be cared for I'll fuss over you all you like" and Hikari is. not escaping for the next couple of minutes. (But he's not trying hard to either.)

[schizononagesimus]

🎶 they tried to make me go to rehab and i said PLEASE PLEASE HOLY FUCK I FEEL SO BAD WILL NOBODY HELP ME I CANT STOP WHY DOESNT ANYBODY NOTICE HOW BAD IT IS PLEASE HELP

[pinootgu]

read some goreconte and FUCK its like yaoi heroin. something something halves that are separate but make a whole something something the moon only shines when the sun is there to light it. sometimes a nice guy is what a whore needs.

like fitzconte is fine. its great and always true. no matter what they're boy best friends that have definitely given each other handjobs. but,, goreconte,, ough. there is camaraderie and respect. admiration and infatuation. no performance no dance. it is simple but beautiful in its simplicity.

to me, goreconte works w the inevitability of gore's death and how losing his sun affects le vesconte. for a time, he has fitzjames, but he loses gore first. someone said in a post that le vesconte is having a character arc somewhere left of stage and i think placing gore's death within that is key

[morningmask27]

Tonight, right now, not even ten minutes ago, might have been the closest I got to an outright hatecrime

[pankomako]

"'it looks so tired'? HE/HIM MOTHERFUCKER" - a drunk boat on stream tonight

[stressfulsloth]

Hrngh I just. I don't want to argue with people but. Being an addict is not a moral issue. You are not more morally good and pure for never having experienced addiction. You are not inherently bad for being an addict. Like the recovery narrative centres becoming a "better person" or being "redeemed" BUT BEING IN ACTIVE ADDICTION DOES NOT MAKE SOMEONE INHERENTLY A BAD PERSON. You don't need to be redeemed. That kind of dichotomous thinking is detrimental to recovery, setting people up to see relapse as a moral failure, a weakness in character, something they need to repent and self flagellate for. When it's just... not. It's a part of the process.

And even beyond that, if you can't bring yourself to uncouple addiction from morality, you have to see that addiction never happens in a vacuum. To ignore the socioeconomic factors that contribute, the way that addiction and alcoholism intersect frequently with chronic pain, the way that our society is essentially made hostile to people experiencing addiction which then in turn self-perpetuates... it seems needlessly cruel as well as ridiculously individualistic. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps type of mentality. Poverty and chronic pain are significant contributing factors in many cases of long term addiction; it is far more useful to blame power structures that allow people to remain in poverty, their pain untreated, the inequalities and failed safety nets, disregard for vulnerable populations, all amounting to social murder. Choosing instead to place blame and vitriol at the feet of addicts is unhelpful at best and frankly malicious at worst.

[southofzero]

successfully survived my first week-long T-break since i started smoking in april 2020. clap for me or i'll blow this entire fucking website to smithereens

[itstimeforstarwars]

When I'm allowed to do whatever (when I used to have summer breaks) I naturally fell into a rhythm where I would be awake until 2am and then sleep until 7 am but in my current job I wake up at 3 am and go to bed at 8 pm and it gets me more hours of sleep but I feel significantly less rested.

[hailsatanacab]

Prove you're in that hot tub, selfie time!

hot tub hot tun hot tub selfie

[chalcan]

guys we're all just collectively feeling like Ed at the end of S1

[sleptwithinthesun]

so i've been apartment hunting with a friend since we're planning on living off-campus together next year and it's been really good so far!

the problem is that we were out drinking in town (i'm 21 now; bday was back in early-ish june) and she's one of those people who gets all sneezy after vodka and i just. keep ticcing 'fuck off' at her instead of blessing her 😭

i'm lucky enough that snz irl actually kind of squicks me but genuinely what the FUCK SJDKGLF

[3knecrotic]

Valium and strawberry mimosa mix and maybe even bong time let's FUCKING GO gang

[thesaltyace]

When you do Zoom dinner with friends in another state and you're telling them about stuff going on in your life in Texas and not really thinking much of it...

And then they go "Hey if you ever need to leave Texas in a hurry, just start driving and give us a text or call whenever you can. Even if you show up in the middle of the night you're welcome to stay with us while you figure things out."

On one hand that's very very kind and we're very grateful to know that they would shelter us if needed.

On the other hand, it's now got me thinking that Texas must look way more horrific from the outside because we're just used to living inside the nightmare and don't realize how bad it is.